This article discusses several things we learned about in class such as outsourcing, unintended consequences,
and mentions indirectly comparative advantage, social responsibility, Ricardan theory, and technoligical change.
The article starts by telling us that "outsourcing occurs when business decides that profits are more important
than global location or human principles" and that government regulation is the major cause for such behavior.
It also mentions as we discussed in class that "it is less expensive than hiring workers in the United States
and abiding by U.S. government watchdogs and regulation".The author then implies that this gives NAFTA (and others
like it) better things to do off our shores, that our government is doing nothing other than trying to watch
and control every penny that comes and goes from Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer in order to use it for government policies
and regulations, and that in this sense the U.S. is lacking in social responsibility to its own people.
But here the author misses a few important points as to why and how there is outsourcing and that if we were to
limit or get rid of it there would be negative consequences. The reason that the U.S. companies CAN outsource in
the first place is because of technological change; dramatic improvements in telecommunications and computing have
allowed for business to be conducted elsewhere for a cheaper cost.Also this creates a comparative advantage
in that we are perfectly capable of producing this good or service here in the U.S., but the fact that it could be
done more efficiently, cheaper, and just as good elsewhere, gives us more time to do what we are best at. This